Hippy at heart - where to live?

[yellowbeads]

That's just it really...

Ideally an hour or so from London (Notting Hill), good for kids (ages 1, 7 and 8), and in / very near to a town / city.

All ideas welcome!

Any hippies out there?!

Stroud, it's further from London than you want though.

I was coming on the say Totnes in Devon, it's lovely and v. hippy but too far from London for you. I'd like to retire down there! Second on the hippy list for me would be glastonbury but again too far. Perhaps for a hippy holiday?

Brighton?

I came to say Totnes, Glastonbury or Tintagel.

You are just NOT going to get alternative within an hour of Notting Hill. No way!

Yeah Stroud your best bet. About 2hrs from Paddington on the train.

Stroud

What do you particularly want life style wise (semi rural? House price? Schooling type?)

Brighton is the closest to London you will get. Or stay in London and move to Dalston?

Further afield the three famous alternative enclaves are Stroud, Totnes and Hebden Bridge.

Totnes for sure but it's not an hour from London

No where that close to town really

Again...further away but
Totnes
Bridport
Lyme Regis
Lewes (not too far from London)

glastonbury town is a weird, uncomfortable place. i didn't like it at all. Stroud is fab tho.

Lewes

I was going to say Stroud too!

Cambridge :)

Brighton for sure..

yeah, brighton is lovely.

Lewis used to be alternative but now it's so upper middle class establishment that it's a parody of itself.

Forest Row?

I was going to say Hebden Bridge but that's a bit far!

I'm in a bit of SE London that can feel quite hippyish, DD's school is very dippy hippy.

I knew Forest Row would appear on this thread sooner or later. You would fit right in

What goes on.in Stroud?

Hebden Bridge is great for free spirits. But it does depend what you mean OP. Are you a hippy who wears her baby in a designer sling you could afford because your DH has a well paid job or are you living off the fat of the land hippy?

Are there any hippy places in the midlands? Preferably east midlands?